Oh I don't? Just listen to the music. How many club, & fuck girl joints are there? How many times have you heard the same song over & over again, just by a different artist? & you tell me I know nothing about hip-hop.[funny] Shame on you.

Pharoah Monch:
"What is a scorpian..an animal that stings..
I'm like a bat with blood comin' out the wings
you could never in wildest dreams
shit on a n*gga that resides in the burrough of Queens...

now you gettin' fucked without the K.Y. Jelly"

bitten from...LL Cool J "To Da Break of Dawn":What is a panther? An animal that kills
I'm like a shark with blood comin' out the gills
you could never in ya wildest dreams
get a piece of this gangsta lean, straight from Queens
Strong as liquor to be seen in a limosine
now ya gettin' done without vaseline!

Common Sense:

I came through the corr-idoor with the aura!

bitin' from....Rakim "Microphone Fiend":

I came through the door...said it before

Talib Kweli:

"You want it we got it...come get it, I'm with it"

bitten from...the Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff "Time To Chill":

You want it, we got it... come get it, I'm with it!"

Biggie Smalls:

N*ggas think Frank pussy whipped...picture that with a kodak

concept bitten from... Kool Moe Dee "Let's Go":

Picture that...with a Kodak! I take no shorts and you know that

and these are the ones I could remember off the top of my head. It is a common literary tool to reference a popular artist's work in order to set a mood for your own. Jay may do it more than others, but he mostly uses the work of Biggie's as a way of extending Big's influence past his death. I think he also does it as a way of saying his work is an extension of BIG's... like Brooklyn's lyrical legacy. I'm sure he wouldn't mind the next big Brooklyn artist to use his lines as a springboard...

there's only a few who set the standards for music... and everyone else follows them

hov is one of them

this is true

"With so many different flows there's one for this song
The next one I switch up, this one will get bit up
These fucks, too lazy to make up shit, they crazy
They don't, paint pictures, they just, trace me
You know what? Soon they forget where they plucked
they whole style from, they try to reverse the outcome
I'm like - TOUGH!
I'm not a biter I'm a writer for myself and others
I say a B.I.G. verse, I'm only biggin up my brother"

he is innovative - has anyone even tried that ^ before?

and to the whole "anyone can do it, its simple shit"

he dumbed down for his audience and doubled his dollas... you critisize'em for it, yet you all yell HOLLA

there's only a few who set the standards for music... and everyone else follows them

hov is one of them

this is true

"With so many different flows there's one for this song
The next one I switch up, this one will get bit up
These fucks, too lazy to make up shit, they crazy
They don't, paint pictures, they just, trace me
You know what? Soon they forget where they plucked
they whole style from, they try to reverse the outcome
I'm like - TOUGH!
I'm not a biter I'm a writer for myself and others
I say a B.I.G. verse, I'm only biggin up my brother"

he is innovative - has anyone even tried that ^ before?

and to the whole "anyone can do it, its simple shit"

he dumbed down for his audience and doubled his dollas... you critisize'em for it, yet you all yell HOLLA

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ok kid, you need to stop quoting him, as for the try that shit before, well yea it's called rapping... anyway, anyone can do it yea, i can go just as quick as twista if i know the fucking lyrics.... so whatever, ya'll act like your selling fucking records...